Boot tongue



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Patented Aug. 27, 1929.

UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN S. JUSTIN, OF NOCONA, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR TO H. J. JUSTIN AND SONS, OF NOCONA, TEXAS, A COPARTNERSI-IIP CONSISTI'NG F MRS. H. J. JUSTIN, W. E. JUSTIN, S. A. JUSTIN, J. S. JUSTIN, ENID JUSTIN STELZER, FERN JUSTIN SENTER, ANIS JUSTIN LEMON, AND MYBL JUSTIN.

BOOT TONGUE.

Application filed February 19, 1924. Serial No. 693,759.

The present invention relates to the manufacture of boots and shoes, and has particularly to do with the patterns and shaping of the tongue portion thereof.

The primary objects of the invention is to produce a tongue having the same marginal shape at the ankle as the quarter and to do away with the waste incidental to the conventional preparation of tongue stock;

secondarily, it is an object of the invention to provide a new and better shaped boot or shoe tongue b employing an improved pattern adapted to respond readily to a crimping process whereby to give it the necessary shape; and lastly to obtain a tongue of such configuration as will facilitate rapid and neat lacing of the boot with an avoidance of bunchiness and wrinkles.

These, and such other objects as may hereinafter appear, are attained by the novel construction, arrangement, and combination of elements set forth in the specification which follows and fully disclosed in the single sheet of drawing, attached hereto, and

made a part of this specification.

In said drawing Figure 1 is a plan view of a blank form which the improved tongue is formed;

Figure 2 is a plan view of the blank shown in Figure 1 after the edges of the material are stitched together;

Figure 3 is a transverse section showing the blank folded preliminary to crimping;

Figure 4 is a side elevation of a tongue made in accord with the invention; and

Figure 5 is a plan view of one boot quarter showing the manner of attaching the tongue, the view of the latter be fragmentary.

Like reference characters are used to designate similar parts of the drawing and in the description which follows:

The material or stock of the tongue 10 is cut by pattern as shown in Figure 1. With the finished surface inside, the vertical edges thereof, 11, are brought together and stitched to form a seam 12. A zig-zag seam closing machine serves admirably for this purpose. By so stitching, the cut out portions 13 in the upper end of the tongue 10 are brought adjacent one another as disclosed in Figure 2.

The stitched tongue 10 is now folded back upon itself as disclosed in Figure 3, the seam 12 being at the front of the fold of four thicknesses of leather.

In this condition,

the tongue 10 is placed in a crimping machine and manipulated therein until the shape disclosed in Figure 4 is obtained.

The tongue 10 is next allowed to dry, and

is then ready for use.

WVhen applied to a boot, the material of tongue 10 adjacent seam 12 is cut giving said tongue a marginal configuration substantially identical with that of the quarter 14 of a boot, shown in Figure 5, permitting of a snug fit at the ankle thereof when secured to said quarter in the usual manner.

A central crease upon above the other.

greater extent than the other, producing bunchiness and an uneven fitting of the tongue 10 upon the quarters 14:.

I claim:

As a part of an upper for a boot, a tongue having the edges thereof disposed adjacent to each other and constructed and arranged to be separated by cutting a joining thread and to be secured to the edges of the quarters, said tongue preliminary to attachment to such quarters having its adjacent edges secured by said thread and its body creased along three lines, there being two edges creases and a middle crease, the two edge creases extending inwardly and the middle crease outwardly, and the edges of the tongue in the region of the ankle being crimped to correspond to the curvature of such quarters thereabout.

JOHN S. JUSTIN. 

